MORRISTOWN The halls of Assumption School here last Friday swelled with excitement and pride as its students, staff, faculty and parents celebrated a milestone achievement for a school, which is already well known for its excellence in education and spiritual formation: being designated a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School.

From 1988 until 1998, CBS aired the highly successful sitcom Murphy Brown. This cutting-edge comedy featured Candice Bergen as a tough-talking investigative journalist and news anchor. In 1992, the show’s main character decided to have a child out of wedlock. Then Vice President Dan Quayle remarked that “It doesn’t help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.”

Fifty years ago, on January 13, 1964, Columbia Records released The Times They Are a-Changin?, one of Bob Dylan?s most famous songs. Because the lyrics captured the spirit of social and political upheaval of the day, the song instantly became the protest song of the 1960s.

October. 4, 2014 marks an historic moment in the life of the Catholic Church in the United States. For the first time ever, the Rite of Beatification will take place on American soil. In this ceremony, the Church officially recognizes the heroic sanctity of someone who has died and allows the faithful to honor this person with devotion on a local level and to pray to this person for their needs.